by Maggie Preston | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
There have been many articles written about plotting (planning) vs pantsing (seat of the pants). Typically, I’m a planner. I have oodles of charts and graphs and questionnaires that I work on before starting a new story. I find pictures that capture what I think my...
by Maggie Preston | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have confessed via Twitter to being a secret Anglophile. It’s not a huge obsession but I have a certain level of interest with all things Princess Diana. I was a hopeless teenage romantic when she came into the spotlight. I was in Alaska when she got married and...
by Maggie Preston | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am working on a romance story and trying not to kill people. No, not REAL people. Imaginary people. I primarily write romantic suspense and this is a straight romance but that mystery element keeps poking its head into my story. Even in the first book of this...
by Maggie Preston | Apr 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
I went to a liberal arts college, a place that’s supposedly deeply connected to the humanities. In my freshman lit class, we read Beowulf and were asked to re-write the story as part of a final exam. Imagine that! The professor (aka the evil professor) encouraged me...
by Maggie Preston | Apr 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
My head is still spinning to tell the truth. So much is happening that I can’t seem to get ahead much less do the writing I need to be doing. I’m working hard on getting book 2 together but it’s not coming together as quickly as I would like. I guess...